Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 59
“Now,” declared he, “I’m going to have a little sleep.
Who acts: I · What happens: declare, be, go, have · To what, where: djak, little sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 declared | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 declared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 declared | conj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sleep | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sleep | amod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | djak | now | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | a little sleep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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